Walter

“It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it?
Yes. It does.
There's a lot of things look better at a distance.
Yeah?
I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one.
Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

“We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

“Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited